Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 213
Ah! there's a faded leaf; I can see that quite plainly."
Who acts: faded leaf, I · What happens: be, fade, see · To what, where: that
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faded leaf, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 's | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 's | expl |
| 4 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 leaf | det |
| 6 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 leaf | amod |
| 7 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 's | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 's | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 plainly | advmod |
| 14 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 11 see | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a faded leaf | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fade | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | see | can | I | that | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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